"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."

-- Patricia Ireland

#Thinking Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had, I pray so much about it, need some knee pads.”
“Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.”
“We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.”

Source : Deborah Smith (2002). “Alice At Heart”, p.10, BelleBooks
“Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.”
“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.”
“As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.37, Vintage
“The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.”

Source : "Arts de Faire".
“If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your car, (about the BMW X3).”

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